What was your pick from the cocktail challenge!?

"First add one ounce of thrice-distilled wasp venom syrup which has been infused with pink diamond reduction. Next, you wanna take your meteorite extract..."

Honestly, most of those sound unbalanced or unnecessarily complicated. I think the only one I’m interested in trying is the Mr. Black Forest.

Thank you to everyone who particiapted in this year's competition and congrats to the top 10!

The Mr Fizz and Cherry & Espresso Sour both look fantastic.

I'd love to try some of these... if only Canada had Mr. Black! 😭😭

Holy smokes the mad master needs to take a lesson in restraint. That's just wholly infeasible in any capacity

It's nice to see you still have that shake mojo, Steve. Cheers!

I love your commentary on the recipes!!!

Mr Black Forest looks... like so good

Just found you on yt and bought your hardcover book on Amazon AU. Seriously that Mad Master cocktail bizarre with ALL those ingredients. I think most bars would not have all these ingredients!! Love the 3 ingredients philosophy best for us home-based mixers.

Truthfully, I'm a bit annoyed with some of the finalists that were chosen. Asking people to make one or more extremely obscure syrup/infusion or whatever for a single drink with no guarantee of its quality beforehand is a big ask. I have to say I'm a bit annoyed with this trend of needlessly complicated custom ingredients that I sometimes see, and disappointed to see it reflected in this contest with so much visibility. A lot of these recipes sound like the creators were simply flexing to see who could come up with the most esoteric custom ingredients, and it seems like the results weren't even worth it in many cases. I find much more value in finding surprising combinations of flavors from ingredients that are purchasable or called for reasonably often in other recipes, but maybe that's just me. I don't mind making a batch of cinnamon syrup or a chamomile rye infusion, but "roasted wattleseed distillate"? Come on, man.

Steve is so wholesome

Some amazing creativity in there

Love how you have gone through the effort with all the "house" ingredients to re-create these cocktails!

"Interesting" = hmmmmm 😂 gonna try some of these, obsessed with Mr Blacks, easily the best coffee liquere on the market

Was waiting for this video, so hyped !!

I'm here just to see Steve smile

A lot of cocktails to choose from. Very nice.

The night and day is one I would like to try.

Definitivly the last one!😅🍸 cheers! how are you, Steven?

Well done to everyone who got through, what a great competition. So many more great entries online. I thought though that some of these were a little too much with the making of recipies rather than simplistic cocktails made with great flavours, creativity and presentation. ‘There’s an awesome entry online called ‘Spirited Away’ that I tried, awesome & delicious just like it’s creator 😁👌😉

That was really fun to watch

amazing recipes and smiles

Kat talking from behind the camera reminds me of Jules talking to Jamie Oliver when he first started. Pukka.

so happy I came across your channel :)

I just love your videos Steve - you are a really cool guy - if you ever come to munich/Germany I’ll buy you a drink

the pronunciation of the base spirit or brand used in the Yuzucello is pronounced koyomi (Co in the word Co-op, Yo as in Yo-yo, and Mi as in Me or Mee). In Japanese the pronunciation of the vowel i = ee

I'm surprised this isn't sponsored by Mr. Black. I mean wow lots of that needed to make all of these.

Some great entries. So hard to pick a winner without trying them.

Just made myself a b&b and now you upload a video. Perfect :)

good stuff bro!!! love the videos!! 🤙🏼🤙🏼

Appreciate your honesty on these, I'd be lying if I said Rumble in the jungle was a carefully curated creation 🤫! Eagerly awaiting the final results

Yesssssssssssss!!! I'm number 4!!!

hello, I wanted to know if you can make a cocktail of old continent gin, I would like to see what you can do with it

he's baaaaackkkkk

Good job bro👍 👍 👍

I had all the ingredients for one of them

Can not find mr black in Greece athens......am so mad about it... Do you have any similar for me to get ??

How did you get hold of pebble ice? Is that from a machine, an ice tray? Ive been researching how to get hold of it in Melbourne but it’s looking to be industrial machinery which wouldn’t be too kind on the wallet 😶 I’ve been using the ice mallet+Lewis bag combo but pebble ice would be far more consistent!

Hey Steve, You said you were going to leave a link to the Ginger Bitters you used in the Mad Master I didn't see the link anywhere though. Can you pass that on to us?

Whats the song in this vid???

Can't see the links to the syrups etc

I have what most people would consider a pretty well stocked bar and can always make a truckload of different cocktails with whatever I’ve got in there, ranging from the classics to quite obscure. But how many of these slightly incongruous sounding ten cocktails could I go and whip up now? One, and that’s with brand substitution.. I mean who has cashew or gear let alone pandas syrup? Threes such as thing as being too clever, and 12 ingredients? Sorry that’s called dinner.

Top 10 $250 cocktails! 🤣

😁

Just out of curiosity, was the Carpino Club tried by you or any of the judges? It was my entry and I’m actually putting it into a book. I would love to hear feedback if you did! (Also, when the book is done I would love to send you a copy)

Out of those 1000+ recipes and these are the top ten.... unfortunately there were so many more better cocktails that were submitted.

Lot of work

Nice Threefold back there

Nice to see you back in the "bar" again! The kitchen vlogs are 👎👎👎

I refuse to accept that at least 4 of those mad master ingredients are distinguishable in that drink. Bartender should be able to get a similar flavour profile from half the ingredients

One "drop," of Walnut bitters bitters? I guarantee that no-one would tell the difference if you left it out!

Guessing Mr Black was a required ingredient? Doesn't sound very interesting